Asa Hutchinson Quotes

I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.

The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.

The Right has focused on expanding economic liberty through tax cuts, free trade, and deregulation.

We want everybody to get rich. The Republican Party is often called unloving, uncaring, not generous, or whatever - that's a bunch of baloney. We're the party that believes in free markets.

Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.

I am a Reagan Republican: I believe in Free Market Capitalism; I believe in economic growth.

The media has brainwashed the electorate to expect the government to do something. The best economic policy of any government is to do nothing but reduce the size of the government, reduce the size of the laws, and reduce the size of regulations.

During his runs for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has done a good job of mimicking Reagan's anti-government diatribes and 'better days ahead' rhetoric.

Reagan proved deficits don't matter.

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

The Tea Party folks may be sincere, loyal citizens, but their notions about how the economy works are exactly that: mere notions. Their core notion is that government needs to do nothing more than get out of the way of business in order for the economy to boom and bloom.

When, in his first inaugural address, Ronald Reagan famously said government is the problem, not the solution, he established the Republican mantra that has not changed in all the years since. It was a clever bit of rhetoric, but it has turned too many Republicans into economic simpletons.

Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.

I helped Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp develop supply-side economics.

Republicans should never abandon pro-growth conservative principles in an effort to embrace the ideas of Al Gore.

Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch.

I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.

I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I sure didn't expect it.

I like Ronald Reagan, who didn't play crass politics, and he just articulated and delivered on broad themes that were needed. Free markets meant free markets. Deregulation. Lower tax rates. Strong national defense. And he was credible and believable.

Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of.

I don't think Obama understands basic economics. Not economics that work. He may understand some theory that someone in Princeton sat and dreamed up, but it's not working.

The Reagan years showed us that expanding economic freedom should be the North Star - the guiding light - of U.S. policy, because it is the best way to achieve sustained and broad-based prosperity for all.

In the past, proactive fiscal polices almost always meant just more investment and an increase in the fiscal deficit.

I am a free market Republican. I am against subsidies, in most cases.

I think Republicans really need to be disciplined, to stay focused on sustained economic growth.